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(2) Thomas Frank Heaphy

(b London, 2 April 1813; d London, 7 Aug 1873). Son of (1) Thomas Heaphy. He visited Italy with his father in 1831, where he developed enthusiasms for Italian religious art and portraiture. In 1861 he published eight articles in the Art Journal, attempting to ascertain the origin of the likeness of Christ. Between 1859 and 1862 he exhibited a series of portraits of peasant women of various nationalities at the Royal Academy.

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